Barkeria lindleyana Bateman ex Lindl. 1842 Photo Courtesy of Lourens Grobler

White Color Form Photo Courtesy of Patricia Harding

Flowering plant in situ in Mexico Photo Courtesy of Robert Weyman Bussey

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Common Name Lindley's Barkeria [English Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size 2 to 3" [5 to 6 cm]

Found from Mexico to Costa Rica as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic or lithophytic orchid that occurs at elevations of 200 to 2500 meters in semi-deciduous and deciduous forests with cane-like stems enveloped with basal leaf sheaths and oblanceolate, acute, clasping at the base leaves and blooms on a 32" [80 cm] long, arcuate, laxly few to many [5 to 20] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature stem with grayish papery bracts and large, showy, nodding flowers occuring in the fall.

Synonyms Barkeria linleyana var centrae Rchb.f 1873; Barkeria linleyana ssp. lindleyana [Batem. ex Lindl. Thein 1970; Epidendrum lindleyanum (Bateman) Rchb. f. 1862; Epidendrum lindleyanum var centrae [Rchb.f] Veitch 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 46. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 130. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 297. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952/53/65/85; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965/82 as Epidendrum lindleyanum; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 3 1962; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 4 1964 photo as Epidendrum lindleyanum; Die Orchideen #9 33-36 tafel 9 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo fide; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing fide/photo hmm; Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 3 1979 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 2 1980 photo fide; Minature Orchids Northen 1980; Illustrated Encyclopoedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel; Cribb and Laurent 1982; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 6 1987 photo as B lindleyana var alba; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1403 Mora & Atwood 1992 drawing fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1993; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 6 2004/5 photo; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Miniature Orchids Frownie 2007; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide;

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